(Me jumping out of a plane at 13,000 feet!! btw, I'm the one on the bottom. )		   James M. Kang
  Address
  University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering 
  4-192 EE/CS Building
  200 Union Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455

  office: 5-202 EE/CS Building
  phone: (612) 626-7703
  email: jkang(at)cs(dot)umn(dot)edu
  homepage: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~jkang
  curriculum vitae: (pdf - 10/09)

          
 
Research Interests: Spatial Databases, Query Optimization, Spatio-Temporal Databases, Data Mining of Spatial and Multimedia data, and applications to Ecology, Civil Engineering, and Geology
 
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science (2005 - Present)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Research advisor: Prof. Shashi Shekhar
Thesis: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis of Eco-Informatics

M.S., Computer Science (2005)
B. T. Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
Thesis: A Query Engine of Novelty in Video Streams

B.S., Computer Science (2000)
Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
 
Awards/Activities
  • Best Paper Award - The First International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD '07)
  • NSF IGERT Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005 - 2007
  • Selected as one of the best papers in the 1st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, 2006
  • Asia Pacific Exchange Leadership Award, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York, 2003
  • Officer, New Hires Group, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York 2000 - 2004
  • College of Science Student Council, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 1997
  • Secretary, Asian American Association, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 1996
  • Rehabilitation Volunteer, Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, New York, 1996
  • Systems Volunteer, Erie 1 Boces, Buffalo, New York, 1996
Publications
Journal Publications
  1. J. M. Kang, M. Mokbel, S. Shekhar, T. Xia, D. Zhang, Incremental and General Evaluation of Reverse Nearest Neighbors, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), to appear.

  2. V. Gandhi, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, J. Ju, E. D. Kolaczyk, and S. Gopal Context-Inclusive Function Evaluation: A Case Study with EM-Based Multi-Scale Multi-Granular Image Classification , Knowledge and Information Systems, (KAIS), to appear.

  3. B. George, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar Spatio-Temporal Sensor Graphs (STSG): A Data Model for the Discovery of Spatio-Temporal Patterns, International Journal of Intelligent Data Analysis (JIDA), to appear.

Conference/Workshop Publications
  1. J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, M. Henjum, P. Novak, W. Arnold, Discovering Teleconnected Flow Anomalies: A Relationship Analysis of spatio-temporal Dynamic (RAD) neighborhoods, In the Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD '09), pp. 44-61, Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-10, 2009 (Selectivity of 1 out of 3). [pdf]

  2. D. Morgan, J. W. Kang, J. M. Kang, Mineable Data Warehouses, In the Eleventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS '09), pp. 125-136), Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009, (Selectivity of 1 out of 9).

  3. J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, C. Wennen, P. Novak, Discovering Flow Anomalies: A SWEET Approach, In the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '08), pp. 851-856, Pisa, Italy, December 15-19, 2008 (Selectivity of 1 out of 7). [pdf]

  4. M. Celik, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, Zonal Co-location Pattern Discovery with Dynamic Parameters, In the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '07), pp. 433-438, Omaha NE, October 28-31, 2007 (Selectivity of 1 out of 5). [pdf]

  5. B. George, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, Spatio-Temporal Sensor Graphs (STSG): A Sensor Model for the Discovery of Spatio-Temporal Patterns, In the first SIG-KDD International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data (Sensor-KDD '07), San Jose CA, August 12, 2007 (Best Paper Award). [pdf]

  6. M. Celik, S. Shekhar, J. P. Rogers, J. A. Shine, J. M. Kang, Mining At Most Top-K% Mixed-drove Spatio-temporal Co-occurrence Patterns: A Summary of Results, In the ICDE Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (STDM '07), pp. 565-574, Istanbul, Turkey, April 20, 2007. [pdf]

  7. J. M. Kang, M. Mokbel, S. Shekhar, T. Xia, D. Zhang, Continuous Evaluation of Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbors, In proceedings of the IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '07), pp 806-815, Istanbul, Turkey, April 16-20, 2007 (Selectivity of 1 out of 7). [pdf]

  8. V. Gandhi, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, J. Ju, E. D. Kolaczyk, S. Gopal, Context-Inclusive Approach to Speed-up Function Evaluation for Statistical Queries : An Extended Abstract., In proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (SSTDM '06), in conjunction with the IEEE 6th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '06), p. 371-376, Hong Kong, December 18, 2006 (Selectivity of 1 out of 3). [pdf]

  9. V. Misic, J. M. Kang, A. M. Teredesai, J. Sissel, Portable Image Archiving: Annotation, Search, and Data Retrieval, In proceedings of Imaging Science and Technology Archiving Conference 2005 (IS&T '05), p. 114-118, Washington, D.C., April 26-29, 2005. (link)

  10. V. Misic, J. M. Kang, J. Sissel, A. M. Teredesai, JPEG 2000 - New Paradigm in Image Archiving, 1st Gollisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Conference (GCCIS '05), Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY, January 21st, 2005.

  11. V. Misic, J. M. Kang, J. Sissel, JPEG 2000: Web Services for Image Conversion and Document Database Search, JPEG 2000 Symposium (JPEG 2000 '04), University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 5, 2004.
Book Chapters
  1. S. Shekhar and J. M. Kang, Spatial Databases, Book Chapter in Data Engineering, Springer Publishers. (Accepted)

  2. S. Shekhar, V. Gandhi, J. M. Kang, and M. Mokbel, Spatial Databases, Handbook of Database Technologies (Ed. Markus Schneider and Joachim Hammer), CRC Press, 2007. (Accepted)

  3. J. M. Kang, A. M. Teredesai, M. A. Ahmad, R. Gaborski, Cognitively Motivated Novelty Detection in Video Data Streams, In the Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (MDM-KDD '06), Springer Publishers. Valery A. Petrushin and Latifur Khan (Eds.) 2006.
Encyclopedia Articles
  1. S. Shekhar, J. Kang, V. Gandhi Spatial Databases, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, Wiley, Cassie Craig (Eds.). (Accepted)

  2. S. Shekhar, J. Kang, V. Gandhi Spatial Data Mining, Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer Publishers, Jennifer Carlson (Eds.). (Accepted)

  3. S. Shekhar, V. Gandhi, J. Kang, Spatial Data Mining, Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Sage Publications, Karen Kemp (Eds.). (Accepted)

  4. J. M. Kang, Voronoi Diagrams, Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Springer Publishers, pp. 1232-1235, 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-30858-6). [link]

  5. J. M. Kang, Voronoi Terminology, Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Springer Publishers, pp. 1241, 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-30858-6). [link]

  6. J. M. Kang, Distance Metrics, Encyclopedia of Geographical Information Science, Springer Publishers, pp. 245-246, 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-30858-6). [link]
Technical Reports
  1. V. Gandhi, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, Spatial Databases, Technical Report TR07-020, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 2007. [link]

  2. S. Mane, J. M. Kang, S. Shekhar, J. Srivastava, C. Murray, A. Pusey, Identifying Clusters in Marked Spatial Point Processes: A Summary of Results, Technical Report 06-006, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, 2006. [link]

  3. J. M. Kang, A. M. Teredesai, V. Misic, R. Gaborski, Query Engine of Novelty in Video Streams, Master's Thesis, Department of Computer Science, B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Science, Rochester, NY, USA, 2005. [link]
   
   
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